Hoochie mama elk call.
#11
Typical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 612
I bought one years ago and never had an elk respond to it. Other hunters in the area have good responses. Go figure. I've a few different calls, but it is hard to beat a diaphragm call and a grunt tube to bugle, chuckle, cow call, etc...
#12
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 334
Used to carry one, called in many many elk with it with my buddies. I have always used a mouth diaphragm reed, but I can't get volume with it. Its great in thick timber close in where you don't need that volume. Right now, I like the Imakadabullcrazy calls both long and short range, and the Carltons Fighting cow call. Called my bull in with all three on Sept 16. The hoochie stays on the shelf anymore.
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 2,358
The hoochie mama has two issues:
1) to easy to use, so MANY people grab it. In seconds you are ready to roll
2) Almost impossible to vary the sound
These combined make it not such a good choice as an "only" call. I have used it and have had bulls respond, but I've used it in conjunction with others. Best result I had (very limited being from NH!) is guide with a bugle, me with a hoochie mama and diaphram/tube. My job was to cow call, his was to bugle. I was to move around a bit to. Worked great, brought in a herd bull from a good distance.
1) to easy to use, so MANY people grab it. In seconds you are ready to roll
2) Almost impossible to vary the sound
These combined make it not such a good choice as an "only" call. I have used it and have had bulls respond, but I've used it in conjunction with others. Best result I had (very limited being from NH!) is guide with a bugle, me with a hoochie mama and diaphram/tube. My job was to cow call, his was to bugle. I was to move around a bit to. Worked great, brought in a herd bull from a good distance.
#16
Typical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: 30 miles from park city UT on 1,500 acres.
Posts: 884
The hoochie mama has two issues:
1) to easy to use, so MANY people grab it. In seconds you are ready to roll
2) Almost impossible to vary the sound
These combined make it not such a good choice as an "only" call. I have used it and have had bulls respond, but I've used it in conjunction with others. Best result I had (very limited being from NH!) is guide with a bugle, me with a hoochie mama and diaphram/tube. My job was to cow call, his was to bugle. I was to move around a bit to. Worked great, brought in a herd bull from a good distance.
1) to easy to use, so MANY people grab it. In seconds you are ready to roll
2) Almost impossible to vary the sound
These combined make it not such a good choice as an "only" call. I have used it and have had bulls respond, but I've used it in conjunction with others. Best result I had (very limited being from NH!) is guide with a bugle, me with a hoochie mama and diaphram/tube. My job was to cow call, his was to bugle. I was to move around a bit to. Worked great, brought in a herd bull from a good distance.
#17
Typical Buck
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Colorado
Posts: 797
I think they would work great if hunters would stop using them for the first two weeks of archery season letting every elk in the woods know that the hoochie mama has arrived. If the elk aren't being vocal why would hunters want to be>? Food for thought.
#18
If the elk aren't being vocal why would hunters want to be>? Food for thought.
#20
I am not trying to be an a-hole when I ask this but is this your first year guiding?
Because I honestly can't believe that a professional elk guide has never tried a hoochie mama in the several years that it has been on stores shelves, has never used multiple calls in conjunction with each other to sound like multiple elk, and a professional guide would be relying on "cabelas reviews" to determine if he should use a call or not with paying clients.
Seems to me that a guide would want to have this all figured out before he used a clients paid hunt as a guinea pig.
I know if I were a paying client I would want my guide to know what calls work and what calls don't seem to produce the results (bulls) on a regular basis.
Just sayin ya might want to think about it.
Because I honestly can't believe that a professional elk guide has never tried a hoochie mama in the several years that it has been on stores shelves, has never used multiple calls in conjunction with each other to sound like multiple elk, and a professional guide would be relying on "cabelas reviews" to determine if he should use a call or not with paying clients.
Seems to me that a guide would want to have this all figured out before he used a clients paid hunt as a guinea pig.
I know if I were a paying client I would want my guide to know what calls work and what calls don't seem to produce the results (bulls) on a regular basis.
Just sayin ya might want to think about it.